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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Symbolism of the Fish
Home > Catholic Encyclopedia > F > Symbolism of the Fish Symbolism of the Fish Among the symbols employed by the primitive Christians, that of the fish ranks probably first in importance.
While the use of the fish in pagan art as a purely decorative sign is ancient and constant, the earliest literary reference to the symbolic fish is made by Clement of Alexandria, born about 150, who recommends his readers (Paedagogus, III, xi) to have their seals engraved with a dove or a fish.
Clement did not consider it necessary to give any reason for this recommendation, from which it may be safely be inferred that the meaning of both symbols was unnecessary.
Indeed, from monumental sources we know that the symbolic fish was familiar to Christians long before the famous Alexandrian was born; in such Roman monuments as the Capella Greca and the Sacrament Chapels of the catacomb of St.
Callistus, the fish was depicted as a symbol in the first decades of the second century.
The symbol itself may have been suggested by the miraculous multiplication of the loaves and fishes or the repast of the seven Disciples, after the Resurrection, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee (John 21:9 ), but its popularity among Christians was due principally, it would seem, to the famous acrostic consisting of the initial letters of five Greek words forming the word for fish ( Ichthys ), which words briefly but clearly described the character of Christ and His claim to the worship of believers: Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter , i.e.
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The variety of forms, unique patterns and vibrant colours of the goldfish have engaged the attention of persons worldwide for almost two millenniums now.
Described already in ancient writings from the Tsin Dynasty dating to about 300 A.D., China boasts the earliest documented accounts of goldfish breeding and keeping.
The fixation with this lovely creature is further revealed in the depictions found on Chinese pottery art.
It was during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1643 A.D.) that the goldfish craze and diversification of breeding spread as frequent exports to Japan took place.
Europes love affair with the fair goldfish did not burgeon until the 1700s.
In fact, France's King Louis XV was known to have gifted exquisite goldfish to one of his mistresses, the Marquise de Pompadour, to win her affections.
Later, the famous French Fauvist painter Henri Matisse made as his subject, the goldfish, in a series of his works, the most famous of which is the Goldfish painted in 1912.
North America was among the last to be introduced to the lovely goldfish in the 1870s when brought from Japan by Admiral Daniel Ammon.
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Fishing Report 3/19/07 Dear Adventurer, I've spent most of my life fishing the waters of the Delta and San Francisco Bay.
I love the thrills and excitement that fishing these bountiful waters provide.
You and your friends will feel the excitement, as your line tightens and adrenaline starts to flow...
the reel screaming as a mighty fish pulls out line.
You set the hook and the battle's joined...
Minutes seem like hours as the contest continues.
At last it's safely in the net...Your nerves calm down and your hands begin to relax, but the excitement continues to pump through your veins with the unparalleled thrill of the catch.
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In his newest (after Annals), McPhee leads readers out to the river-pole and lures in hand-to angle for American shad.
McPhee knows where the fish are running, so to speak, and he opens with a tall tale about his long vigil with a giant roe shad on the line.
Night falls, a crowd gathers on a nearby bridge to watch and still the fish refuses to roll over; however embellished, it's a comic story.
He then probes the natural history of the shad, known as Alosa sapidissima and traces the fish's storied place in American history and economics.
The shad manages to turn up, at least in legend, at George Washington's camp at Valley Forge; it waylaid Confederate General Pickett in the defense of Richmond and hastened the end of the Civil War; it even played a minor role in John Wilkes Booth's murder of Lincoln.
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